Harrier low-fly

[Steve Davies]

Short clip of Harrier GR7 doing tactical departure at Kabul, or wherever.

Work safe if your speakers are turned-off.

https://media.putfile.com/low-one

[Guest Jpilot]

I had to play that one a couple of times to really appreciate it. I love how the guy says he's not going to flinch, but ends up ducking.

Great clip, Steve.

Jp-

[egochecks]

Nice.

How far off the ground do you think he was?

He looked no more than 20-30 ft.

Thanks for the video.

[Guest SuperStallionIP]

After looking at the video a few times, I would say that the belly of the plane is no more than 15 feet AGL. Pretty wild.

[Clayton Bigsby]

EDIT - I should say that's probably either Kandahar, or Basra. If pre-OIF could be Kuwait.

only reason I don't think it's Kandahar or Kabul is the total lack of mountains.

anyway, whatever, it's impressive.

[ 08. April 2006, 13:41: Message edited by: Chuck Farleston ]

[Vetter]

Schweet!

[Guest rapier01]

Cool.

[Steve Davies]

And I suppose if it really was Kabul the exhaust flux would have set off all the mines in the overrun, too!

I have some nice screen grabs from the vid. Will post them tomorrow.

[Guest cb03t]

Any guesses on airspeed?

I have no idea.

[ClearedHot]

Originally posted by cb03t:

Any guesses on airspeed?

I have no idea.

69 Knots...

[Stuck]

America. **** Yeah.

Cheers,

Stuck

[BitteEinBit]

Nice! I'm sure that was Kandyland (Khandahar) because you can see the mountain to the north of the field when the aircraft passes and I remember being on the ground at Khandahar and seeing those guys take off and make their turn out at what looked like no higher than 50ft. That was pretty bada$$!

[HerkDerka]

Upon second review I finally saw the mountain you're talking about Bitte. (Missed it on first post)

Definitely Kandahar.

HD

[Guest Xtndr50boom]

Originally posted by Stuck:

America. **** Yeah.

Cheers,

Stuck

Don't mean to burst your bubble guy, but those are RAF Harrier GR.7s in the video. Not USMC AV-8Bs.

[trailmix]

i think you will LOVE this one:

https://www.alexisparkinn.com/oh_my_god.htm

~mix

[Guest msmith16]

Wow, that was pretty crazy.

[Steve Davies]

Originally posted by trailmix:

i think you will LOVE this one:

https://www.alexisparkinn.com/oh_my_god.htm

~mix

MIx

Just about the best low-fly clip out there!

Depending on who you speak to, that incident is characterised as either superb flying, or downright dangerous flying! I can't make-up my mind as to which!

[Guest twinkle toes]

that is freaking insane :eek:

[Guest twinkle toes]

I can't stop watching it!

[ 11. April 2006, 16:49: Message edited by: twinkle toes ]

[Guest Brewdog]

Come on over; you can watch the show daily. :D